One of the best-known P-51s on the circuit is Gunfighter, a -D model owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force that’s been flying shows for 35 years. Photo by Jim Koepnick.
3 thoughts on “North American P-51 Mustang Gallery”
SOME OF THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHS I HAVE SEEN ON P-51s.
My check rides for my Private and instrument rating in 1976/77 was done with a great P51 Ferry pilot in WWII. Johnny Pecar who owned the Cessna Cessna Flight Center at the Kanawha County Airport in Charleston, WV! He signed me off for both ratings. My first Multi engine Cessna, a 337 was bought from him. I have had many wonderful hours in the air in my planes because of Johnny Pecar and have flown across the USA from coast to coast!
The ORIGINAL “Willit Run” is NOT in the NASM. It was destroyed in WWII in a crash that killed the pilot. The one in the NASM is a “tribute” aircraft, if you will.
SOME OF THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHS I HAVE SEEN ON P-51s.
My check rides for my Private and instrument rating in 1976/77 was done with a great P51 Ferry pilot in WWII. Johnny Pecar who owned the Cessna Cessna Flight Center at the Kanawha County Airport in Charleston, WV! He signed me off for both ratings. My first Multi engine Cessna, a 337 was bought from him. I have had many wonderful hours in the air in my planes because of Johnny Pecar and have flown across the USA from coast to coast!
The ORIGINAL “Willit Run” is NOT in the NASM. It was destroyed in WWII in a crash that killed the pilot. The one in the NASM is a “tribute” aircraft, if you will.